Commit 8f5c69f9 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by David S. Miller

bna: bnad: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 48b77df6
...@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ struct bnad_rx_unmap_q { ...@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ struct bnad_rx_unmap_q {
int alloc_order; int alloc_order;
u32 map_size; u32 map_size;
enum bnad_rxbuf_type type; enum bnad_rxbuf_type type;
struct bnad_rx_unmap unmap[0] ____cacheline_aligned; struct bnad_rx_unmap unmap[] ____cacheline_aligned;
}; };
#define BNAD_PCI_DEV_IS_CAT2(_bnad) \ #define BNAD_PCI_DEV_IS_CAT2(_bnad) \
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